Council debates 21 age rule for downtown bars in Iowa City
Iowa City debates whether to raise the bar entry age to 21 to curb underage and excessive drinking. The Alcohol Advisory Board reports passable progress with monitors and campaigns while critics argue the measure may hurt downtown business. police say numbers show little enforcement impact.
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Iowa City Police Department
Connie Champion
Champion
Regenia Bailey
Bob Elliott
Mike O'Donnell
Alcohol Advisory Board
Cohen
Ernie Lehman
Iowa City
Troy Kelsay
Kelsay
Alcohol Board
Iowa City Police
Senators Grassley and Dodd Push Post-Market Drug Safety Center
Senators Christopher Dodd and Chuck Grassley introduced legislation to create the Center for Post-Market Drug Evaluation and Research with power to pull unsafe drugs, fine firms up to 2 million per incident, require labeling changes, and mandate postmarket studies and advertising review. The center would sit within the FDA and overrule decisions by the agency when warranted.
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Knight Ridder
Washington
Christopher Dodd
D-Conn
Chuck Grassley
Iowa
Capitol Hill
Food and Drug Administration
Grassley
Dodd
FDA
Senate Finance Committee
Merck & Co. Inc
Health and Human Services
Mike Leavitt
Drug Safety Oversight Board
Center
Ethics fight over House rules pits Dems and GOP
Democrats accuse Speaker Hastert and Republicans of softening ethics rules to shield DeLay from probes while Republicans defend revisions as fair and to prevent partisan abuse. With no ethics panel, DeLay plans to submit a decade of documents as he presses for an ethics venue.
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U.S
House
Tom DeLay
Texas
Houston
DeLay
House Ethics Committee
Congress
Hastert
GOP
Luke
Nancy Pelosi
D-Calif
State Department flags gaps in terrorism statistics report
The department ended including attack totals on noncombatants while noting 2004 rise due to civilians and contractors in Iraq. Attacks by Taliban remnants rose in Afghanistan and India Kashmir counts near 300. Critics accuse omission of alarming numbers and warn data cannot be compared year to year.
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al-Qaida
Spain
Indonesia
Congress
Capitol Hill
Department
Iraq
Afghanistan
Europe
Carl Levin
D-Mich
Senate Intelligence Committee
U.S
John Brennan
India
Kashmir
Pakistan
Brennan
Libya
Sudan
Iran
Syria
Cuba
North Korea
Roberts Tops Beautiful List Again on People Issue
Julia Roberts, now a mother of twins Phinnaeus and Hazel, graces People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People issue cover for a record ninth time. Friends say motherhood has heightened her beauty and confidence, with Halle Berry also featured in the annual list.
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Associated Press
Julia Roberts
People Magazine
People
Roberts
Genevieve
Phinnaeus
Hazel
Danny Moder
Halle Berry
Aiken invites sisters to Oprah show during Lincoln visit
Clay Aiken surprised Lincoln East High School students by inviting twin seniors Britney and Bethany Wekesser to The Oprah Winfrey Show. He paused Spanish class to appear with a bus arrival and sang Bridge Over Troubled Water before inviting the sisters to travel to Chicago for the taping.
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Associated Press
Lincoln East High School
Lincoln
Neb
Clay Aiken
Britney
Bethany Wekesser
Winfrey
Aiken
Chicago
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Notable South American novelist Augusto Roa Bastos dies at 88
Paraguayan writer Augusto Roa Bastos died at 88 in Asuncion after a storied career exploring Paraguay's social and political struggles. In the United States, 71-year-old Richard Lewis of Philadelphia, a member of the Silhouettes and coauthor of the 1958 hit Get A Job, died April 19 from multiple organ failure.
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Associated Press
Augusto Roa Bastos
Asuncion
Paraguay
South America
Richard “Rick” Lewis
Philadelphia
the Silhouettes
Ann Margret and Others Celebrate Birthdays Today
Today's birthday list includes actress Ann Margret age 64 and actress Marcia Strassman famous for Welcome Back Kotter. Actor Paul Guilfoyle turns 57 while Jay Leno remains host of The Tonight Show. Actress Mary McDonnell known for Dances with Wolves is 52. Singer Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth is 52. Elisabeth Rohm and Penelope Cruz are noted ages, with Nate Richert and Jessica Alba listed among celebrants.
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Ann-Margret
Marcia Strassman
Welcome Back Kotter
Paul Guilfoyle
Cst
Jay Leno
Mary McDonnell
Kim Gordon
Sonic Youth
Elisabeth Rohm
Law & Order
Penelope Cruz
Nate Richert
Jessica Alba
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